Hi, I'm Ellis with Level Up RN. In this video, I'll be demonstrating how to put on sterile
gloves. I'll be utilizing the steps that are included in our clinical nursing skills deck.
So if you have the deck, grab this card, and you can follow along on the steps with me. If
you don't have the deck and you're interested in getting one, head on over to leveluprn.com.
After the demonstration, I'll be coming back here to show you just
a couple more things about sterile gloving. To prepare for sterile gloving, I've removed
my jewelry and done my hand hygiene and gotten a pack of sterile gloves. So the sterile gloves
are dependent on size, so sometimes it takes a bit to decide what size is the right size
for you. I like to wear a seven and a half. So my first step is to simply open the outer packaging
and remove the sterile glove packaging itself.
I place it on a solid surface that's at least waist height, that's clean, and then I can go
ahead and open it. It opens kind of like a book. So I'm going to unroll those flaps,
unroll these flaps, and then I'm going to use these flaps to pull the wrapper open.
Sometimes you have to really pull, see how it kind of crease the middle of there,
so that it stays open. Because otherwise, it's prone to close back in on itself.
So the first thing I'm going to do is take my nondominant hand, which for me is my left hand,
so my nondominant hand, and I'm going to pick up my dominant hands glove by the rolled cuff.
So I'm going to only touch this rolled cuff portion.
I'm going to hold it fairly high, because as I struggle into it,
I don't want the fingers to graze against the surface of the table or anything. All right,
so I've gotten my dominant hands glove on. I'm now going to use my fingers of this hand
to scoop up under the cuff of my nondominant hands gloves. So I'm going to scoop up into this cuff,
keeping my thumb out, so that I can now put my nondominant hand into this glove and roll it down.
If rolling occurs on the cuff like mine did, you cannot unroll that because that has now
touched my skin, so it's not sterile. So however they end up going on on your wrist like that
is just how they're going to be. And then I like to kind of stand like this until I'm ready to do
something because the compelling feeling to move your hair or touch something can be really strong.
And if you do that, you have to start the process over again. So I'll stand like this
until I'm ready to perform my sterile procedure. And that's how you put sterile gloves on.
Sterile gloving can feel a little bit overwhelming, so I want to make sure
that you have all the information you need to do it successfully. After you open the first turn,
go ahead and crease down this top and this bottom crease before grabbing your flap,
pulling it out, and trying to do that little puff that I mentioned in my first video. This
just helps your packaging hopefully lay as flat as possible and not accidentally close while you're
trying to put your gloves on. Another thing I wanted to mention is that it's also going to help
you a little bit if you just back up from where you've put your sterile gloves. That allows you
to resist the temptation or to accidentally lean over your gloves while you're putting them on.
So if I take this step back, I'm able to pick up my cuff and move slightly away. Because what I
have seen students do is, while they're putting this glove on and my fingers are dangling,
they'll touch stuff, they'll touch the table, they'll touch themselves. And if these fingers
touch anything, they're no longer sterile. So take a step back and be very cognizant of where
the fingers are dangling so that they're not touching anything as you pull it on.